We have had the “Word of Faith” movement for years trying to teach us the power of the tongue, and most of us just took it with a carnal understanding and started believing and confessing for cars and houses and material things. I understand the carnal mind and what it does with truth. However it does not make it any less true. We can become conscious creators rather than unconscious creators, because if we don’t consciously begin to create, we will always create by default.
What do I mean by that? Whenever you continually talk about what you don’t want you will create more of what you do not want. You may say, “This doesn’t sound like what Jesus taught, but He certainly did. Kenneth Hagin’s famous verse to quote was, Mark 11:23. “Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he says come to pass; he shall have anything he says.” For years I used to say I will never be able to quit this habit, or I will never be able to live the Christian life and so I created a life that could not do what I wanted to do.
What changed me is one day as I was confessing my sins as I did every day and winning over my inability to live Godly, I felt God say “STOP IT. You believe the word in your heart but you are always confessing the opposite. Start speaking what you believe in your heart instead of what your carnal mind is telling you.” My life began to change when I started to talk and confess what I believed to be the truth. Death and Life truly are in the power of your tongue.
I began to reject those negative thoughts and those feelings of inadequacies. There was a time when in a church meeting, that I was asked to stand and testify to the congregation. I left the church and never went back because there is no way I could stand before people and say anything. I was such an introvert and so scared and so frightened. So I know by experience, you don’t have to stay the way you are. Because of knowing the truth today of my true being I can stand and speak before thousands with no feelings of inferiority.
We just need to take the time to eat Him, to drink Him, to experience His inner life, and it begins to strengthen and energize us by the power of His Spirit. The only thing we need to do is to learn to live by Christ. It’s the simplest thing you will ever do, and also the hardest. Why – because we are dealing with the carnal mind. I mean, how could we ever think that we could be as Jesus on this earth? Your mind will never let you believe that. You have to experience it to believe it. But you can begin to reject those thoughts that tell you that you can’t, and you can begin again to change the way you see yourself. One of the most life changing experiences we will ever have is when we begin to have a grateful heart. You know, all of us are subject to look at our conditions. The more we think about our condition, and the more we meditate about how it’s not working, the worse it’s going to get because you are creating by your thinking and your speaking. Let’s begin our day by being grateful and focusing on the positive things.
A lot of people don’t like this word at all, because they say, “Well this is New Age stuff.” Well maybe new age people have some truth. Just maybe they do! I first began to speak publicly in 1982. And from the very first weekend that I began to speak, I began by teaching a series I called, “Living by the Life of God.” It was my first message that I ever spoke and was sharing with folks how to live by His life in you. And from that very first series of tapes that I did, I was called a New Age teacher, because the religious mind will always classify something it doesn’t understand as false teaching.
